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Materializing Thailand

Author: Penny Van Esterik
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000.
Series: Materializing culture.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Thailand's sex industry and the high rate of AIDS and child exploitation is notorious, though absent from the glossy tourist brochures. Here, how the material world shapes gender relations and the role of Buddhism in Thailand is explored.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Van Esterik, Penny.
Materializing Thailand.
Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2000
(OCoLC)607468675
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Penny Van Esterik
ISBN: 1859733069 9781859733066 1859733115 9781859733110 1859733654 9781859733653 1859733700 9781859733707
OCLC Number: 44189978
Description: xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Crafting Thailand --
Ordering the past : representations of Thai women --
Buddhism and gender ideology --
Representing Thai culture --
Deconstructing display : gender and beauty --
Prostitution and foreign bodies --
Modelling Thai gender relations --
Context and continuity : grasshoppers, turtles and feminists.
Series Title: Materializing culture.
Responsibility: Penny Van Esterik.

Abstract:

Thailand's sex industry and the high rate of AIDS and child exploitation is notorious, though absent from the glossy tourist brochures. Here, how the material world shapes gender relations and the role of Buddhism in Thailand is explored.

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